Scientific name: Alchemilla mollis (Buser) Rothm.
Diagnostic features
Plant large to very large.
Leaf-lobes 9-11, rounded, with 15-19 slightly incurved subacute teeth.
Basal sinus rather wide.
Whole plant with dense patent hairs except rather sparse on hypanthia and absent on pedicels.
Chromosome number: (2n=102-106).
Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; much grown in gardens and prolifically seeding.
Distribution
More or less naturalized in very scatteredplaces nearly throughout Britain; Carpathians.
This species is keyed out on Page 2239 in the Text Key.
Note
This species belongs to the Alchemilla vulgaris L. aggregate (Lady's-mantle). The species in this aggregate are particularly critical. They are characterized by the general description:
Stems to 60(80)cm, often much less, decumbent to ascending.
Leaves up to 7(10)cm, often much less, simple, palmately lobed less than1/2 way to base, glabrous to densely pubescent.
Habitat: Damp rich grassland, woodland margins and rides, rock-ledges.
Distribution: Throughout most of Britain and Ireland but rare or absent in most of Southeast England. |
